El Misterio de Belicena Villca (in English) Chapters 6, 7 & 8

The matter intrigued me and, even if I doubted that there was some advance, I decided to obtain all the possible information of the crime. When Officer Maidana and I discussed about the probable filiation of the bejeweled rope, I agreed with Maidana to give him a masonic publication to compare the similarity, only external, of the medals, to some jewels destined to rituals of different grades of that organization. At that moment, I wasn't thinking to comply with such promise, when I made a desperate intent to convince the policeman of the ritual character of the murder, noticing that they evaded the bundle and searched a rational solution which, in my opinion, not existed.